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Akcigit, Ufuk; Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2019

reaching the right tails of the firm size and innovation distributions. Furthermore, outcomes are better for startups matched …

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How do judgmental overconfidence and overoptimism shape innovative activity?

Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - 2013

that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism is positively associated with innovation, judgmental overconfidence is negatively linked … to innovation. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship …

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Connecting to power: Political connections, innovation, and firm dynamics

Akcigit, Ufuk; Baslandze, Salomé; Lotti, Francesca - 2020

How do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? To answer this question, we … build a firm dynamics model, where we allow firms to invest in innovation and/or political connection to advance their …

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How do judgmental overconfidence and overoptimism shape innovative activity?

Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - 2013

that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …

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Leveraging social comparisons: The role of peer assignment policies

Senn, Julien; Schmitz, Jan; Zehnder, Christian - 2023

Using a large-scale real effort experiment, we explore whether and how different peer assignment mechanisms affect worker performance and stress. Letting individuals choose whom to compare to increases productivity to the same extent as a targeted exogenous matching policy aimed at maximizing...

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Leveraging social comparisons: The role of peer assignment policies

Senn, Julien; Schmitz, Jan; Zehnder, Christian - 2023

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Surveying business uncertainty

Altig, David; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2019

We develop a new monthly panel survey of business executives and a new question design that elicits subjective probability distributions over own-firm outcomes at a one-year lookahead horizon. Our Survey of Business Uncertainty (SBU) began in 2014 and now covers 1,500 firms drawn from all 50...

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Pandemic-era uncertainty on Main Street and Wall Street

Meyer, Brent; Mihaylov, Emil; Davis, Steven J.; Parker, … - 2021

We draw on the monthly Survey of Business Uncertainty (SBU) to make three observations about pandemic-era uncertainty in the U.S. economy. First, equity market traders and executives of nonfinancial firms share similar assessments about uncertainty at one-year lookahead horizons. That is, the...

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